I have listened to some of them, and how they think they can sing and to be told they are great singers is beyond me. I karaoke every Friday night at the bar, and there are some that sing like crap, but they have fun! So as long as they are having fun, than I don't see the harm. There were several who had no talent enter the American Idol competition, and they were given almost the same treatment this show is giving some.

But there are enough delusional people out there who really do think they are good. Look at the people dismissed from AI auditions... upset, crying, angry... all because they think they are SOOOO good. And most of the time they are not.

You could only fool the contestants once too--unless multiple editions were filmed before the WB started promoting this.

I actually had a weird theory too. That the WB maybe siphoned off all of the good people who "lost" and held a parallel competition before this aired. Then, at the end, we learn that the auditions were MONTHS before the Hollywood portion and the eventual "winner" is actually the winner of this parallel competition--which was held in the intervening months. This "winner", when he or she "won" the contest for the talented people, was asked to tape a faux-bad audition with the judges and then put through the "bad singers" competition as a trojan horse. Thus the joke is on us.

To me it seemed more reasonable than ALL of the bad singers being actors and faking it. Only one is required.